SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IMDb, the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV
and celebrity content, today announced that its award-winning Movies &
TV apps for iOS and Android have each been downloaded more than 25
million times for a total of more than 50 million combined user
downloads. Over the last 5 months, IMDb’s mobile-optimized website and
apps have received an average of more than 175 million visits per month.
Additionally, IMDb just launched a redesigned version of its acclaimed
iPad app featuring highly anticipated discovery features, personalized
recommendations and Watchlist enhancements. To learn more and download
IMDb’s free apps, go to: http://www.imdb.com/apps/.

“2012 has been a significant year for innovation and usage of IMDb’s
leading mobile apps for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire,” said Col Needham,
IMDb’s founder and CEO. “Our mission is to continually surprise and
delight our customers with new features that will revolutionize the
movie-watching experience such as ‘X-Ray for Movies,’ which we launched
in September 2012 exclusively on the new Kindle Fire HD devices. We look
forward to raising the bar on behalf of our customers in 2013.”

September 2012: IMDb and Amazon announce the launch of “X-Ray for
Movies,” exclusively available on the all-new Kindle Fire family.
Gizmodo says of “X-Ray for Movies”: “This feels like the
future...pretty incredible stuff” and USA Today describes the
feature as a “boon for cinema fans.”

“IMDb is older than the Web itself and began as [a] Usenet group...From
there it evolved into the massive website (www.imdb.com)
it is today...After all these mutations, the database may have found its
perfect form in the free IMDb iPad app. That's largely because the app
makes all that information especially accessible where I most need it —
on the couch when I'm watching whatever it is I want to know more about.
IMDb is way more than just a convenient couch-side reference work,
though. The iPad app also includes local showtimes and trailers for
current, still-in-theaters movies, as well as film news and a Coming
Soon section. Although you can find other movie and television apps with
comparable focus, none of them offer the comprehensive depth and detail
of IMDb.” – MacWorld

“One of the best showtimes apps is from the Internet Movie Database,
owned by Amazon. Among its various other entertaining functions, like
listing an actor’s filmography and movie trivia, IMDB has a very good
showtimes section. The app is free on both iOS and Android. On
Android...it shows comprehensive showtimes data along with all movie
details and extra features like previews...Thanks to the global nature
of IMDb itself, this app works outside the United States — especially
useful for travelers.” – The New York Times

“[IMDb's app is] one of the 12 best Android Tablet apps...Featuring a
beautiful image-driven, swipe-friendly interface featuring movie
trailers, popular actors, and international movie listings spread across
thirteen countries, IMDb is a must-have for movie buffs who want the
latest Hollywood and independent film news.” – PC Magazine

“One of the handiest reference websites on the planet, IMDb never fails
when it comes to looking up anything that has to do with TV, film, or
Hollywood. The IMDb Movies & TV app also lets you find which movies are
playing at your local cinema, and even purchase tickets.” – PC
Magazine

“So this feels like the future...X-Ray for Movies can tell what flick
you're watching on your Kindle Fire HD, and gives you every piece of
information you could ever want about it every time you pause. Pretty
incredible stuff. The information is gleaned from IMDb (which Amazon
conveniently owns), and pulls granular detail down to which specific
actors are in the scene you're watching. From there, you can navigate
back through their whole career, read their bios, and do all the other
creeping you'd normally do on the world's foremost movie database. It's
pretty incredible having all of that information literally at your
fingertips in the background. Tablets themselves don't feel like the
future anymore. But things like this, that put the entirety of mankind's
knowledge at your disposal in a blink? That does. That very does.” –Gizmodo

“I'm especially keen on X-ray for Movies, a boon for cinema fans. If you
ever have watched a movie and wondered the name of an actor, you'll
appreciate this neat feature. You can pause a film and see the actors'
names, get brief bios, see other movies they've been in, all culled from
the Amazon-owned IMDb app. The beauty is you don't actually have to
leave the movie to open a separate app.”– USA Today

IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV
and celebrity content. The IMDb consumer site (www.imdb.com)
is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile
audience of more than 160 million unique monthly visitors. IMDb offers a
searchable database of more than 130 million data items including more
than 2 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 4
million cast and crew members. Consumers rely on the information IMDb
provides -- including showtimes, trailers, critic and user reviews,
personalized recommendations, photo galleries, entertainment news,
quotes, trivia, box-office data, editorial feature sections and a
universal Watchlist -- when making viewing decisions. IMDb’s portfolio
of leading entertainment apps includes its popular “Movies & TV” app for
iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android phones, Android tablets, Windows
Phone and its mobile-optimized website. To date, there have been more
than 50 million downloads of IMDb’s mobile apps worldwide. X-Ray for
Movies (www.imdb.com/x-ray) a
feature that revolutionizes the movie-watching experience by bringing
the power of IMDb directly to movies on Kindle Fire HD, launched in
September 2012. To learn more, go to: (http://imdb.com/apps/).
IMDb Pro (http://www.imdbpro.com)
is a subscription version of IMDb designed exclusively for professionals
who work in the entertainment industry. IMDb Pro provides contact
information, in production listings for film and television projects and
exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by user searches on
IMDb. Additionally, IMDb owns and operates Withoutabox (http://www.withoutabox.com),
a marketplace for film festivals and filmmakers, and Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com),
the leading online box-office reporting service. IMDb.com is operated by
IMDb.com, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
(NASDAQ:AMZN) (http://www.amazon.com).
To learn more, go to: http://www.imdb.com/press.